For everyone who is way more interested in seeing the kids than in hearing me talk about how sick they've been, here are a few videos of them that I've taken over the last month.

You know how it's a little bit hilarious when you watch a musical and some character will be talking in normal dialogue and then just burst into song? I know that's the whole point of a musical, but it always struck me as funny. I mean, who just goes around singing whatever they want to say? Well. Kate does. Here she is cooking a pretend meal, musical theater-style:

This first video called "Isaac starts crawling" really only shows a tiny bit of crawling, followed by a great deal of enthusiasm for the crawling from Isaac and Dan and I. I think for a while he thought that was really the only point of crawling -- to get us to clap.

And now that he crawls everywhere all the time, I've gotten used to listening for the sound of a door closing, followed by a few moments of silence, and then very upset crying. This means that Isaac has crawled into a room, shut the door behind him and then panicked because he can't get out. I always go and rescue him and sometimes I sit with him and let him play his little game for a while just to get it out of his system. At least he can't reach the locks on the doorknobs yet.